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  • C08J2327/00—Characterised by the use of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and at least one being terminated by a halogen; Derivatives of such polymers
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Definitions

• This invention relates to a process for the production of hard vinyl chloride resin foams and more particularly, it is concerned with a process for the production of cellular or foamed resin products having dense foams and uniform surface property with a high foaming efficiency or high expansion ratio.
• vinyl chloride resin foams have been prepared by various methods, for example (1) using volatile organic solvents, (2) using hydrocarbon compounds and (3) using foaming agents of decomposition type.
• these methods of producing foams by using foaming agents have some unfavourable disadvantages.
• a disadvantage is unavoidable that the working efficiency is lowered due to the inflammability of a volatile organic solvent and the necessity of removing and recovering the residual solvent in foams and it is difficult to store the resulting foams for a long time because of the volatile organic solvent used.
• the method (2) using hydrocarbon compounds has also a disadvantage that a special means or apparatus for introducing a hydrocarbon compound under pressure uniformly into a resin is required, the selection of a suitable hydrocarbon compound depends greatly upon a resin used and a long time storage property is inferior.
• the method (3) using foaming agents of decomposition type has also a disadvantage that foam controlling is difficult because the decomposition rate of a foaming agent, in particular, of inorganic decomposition type is stepwise slow. Lately foaming agents of organic decomposition type have been widely used, since they are relatively stable in inflammability and storage property and easy to handle due to the form of solid powder, and furthermore, they can readily be mixed by a relatively simple mixing method and applied to various resins.
• the foaming agents of organic decomposition type have these many advantages, but, on the contrary, have some unfavourable disadvantages. That is to say, the quantity of the foaming agent must be within some limit, since if too little, no sufficient expansion ratio is obtained, whilst if too much, discoloration takes place due to the residual foaming agent and cells become large resulting in coarsening of the surface, in spite of that the expansion ratio is not increased so much.
• a radiation or bridging agent to a foaming agent-containing resin composition, thereby effecting the bridge making thereof (Japanese patent publication Nos. 19384/1973 and 4861/1973).
• the expansion ratio is increased, but, on the contrary, several disadvantages are unavoidable that the bridged resin composition loses the intrinsic nature of thermoplastic resin, so that the workability is lowered and the molding or forming method is restricted, and sometimes encounters decomposition and coloration.
• a resin and foaming agent are mixed and subjected to foaming in a suitable forming machine but, in this case, the cellular film strength must be sufficient enough to resist the gas pressure at the time when the foaming agent is decomposed. Therefore, the temperature at which a foaming agent is decomposed, gas quantity and gas pressure at the time when a foaming agent is decomposed, and melt viscosity of resin at the time when forming is carried out must be taken into consideration.
• plasticizers or vinyl chloride resin modifiers are effective for holding the cellular film but should be used in considerably large amounts so as to obtain a satisfactory cellular film strength. That is to say, it is found necessary to use a plasticizer in an amount of at least 10% by weight, preferably 20% by weight based on the weight of a vinyl chloride resin.
• the foams obtained by the method using plasticizers in such large amounts show a markedly lowered melting point, whereby the object of the present invention to obtain hard foams cannot be achieved.
• vinyl chloride resin modifier on the other hand, it is also found necessary to use in an amount of at least 10% by weight, preferably, at least 15% by weight based on the weight of a vinyl chloride resin.
• the use of a modifier which is expensive in such a large amount is disadvantageous from an economical point of view.
• a process for the production of hard vinyl chloride resin foams which comprises mixing a vinyl chloride resin foam forming composition containing or not containing a foaming agent of organic decomposition type with at least one uniformly blended mixture of a vinyl chloride resin composition and foaming agent of organic decomposition type in a large amount than in the above described composition and then subjecting the resulting mixture to foaming.
• a novel process for the production of hard vinyl chloride resin foams having dense cells and uniform and good surface properties with a high foaming efficiency or expansion ratio which comprises mixing a vinyl chloride resin foam forming composition containing a relatively small amount of foaming agent of organic decomposition type or containing no foaming agent (which will hereinafter be referred to as "low foam composition” simply) with at least one uniformly blended mixture of a vinyl chloride resin composition, preferably, having an excellent cellular film strength, and a foaming agent of organic decomposition type in a larger amount than in the above described composition (which will hereinafter be referred to as "high foam composition” simply) and then subjecting the resulting mixture to foaming.
• the feature of the invention consists in raising readily the expansion ratio of foams by the simple method comprising mixing the low foam composition with at least one of the high foam compositions. Even if the amount of a foaming agent of organic decomposition type is increased in one resin composition only, the expansion ratio is not raised, nor is obtained satisfactory foams because the foam surface is broken due to degassing and coloring takes place due to the residual foaming agent. This troublesome problem can be solved by the process of the invention.
• the low foam composition of the invention is a vinyl chloride resin foam forming composition
• a vinyl chloride resin foam forming composition comprising generally 100 parts by weight of vinyl chloride resin, 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a stabilizer, at most 5 parts by weight, preferably, 0.1 to 1.0 part by weight of a foaming agent of organic decomposition type and, optionally, coloring agent, filler, lubricant, reinforcing agent, plasticizer, foaming agent decomposition temperature regulator and foam regulator.
• the high foam composition of the invention is a uniformly blended mixture comprising an ordinary vinyl chloride resin composition, preferably, having an excellent cellular film strength and a foaming agent of organic decomposition type in a larger amount than that of the low foam composition.
• the resin composition having an excellent cellular film strength, that is, having a high foam holding capacity is a vinyl chloride resin composition containing at least one of ordinary plasticizers and vinyl chloride resin modifiers.
• plasticizer used herein examples are those of phthalic acid ester type, phosphoric acid ester type, epoxy type and chlorine-containing type and examples of the vinyl chloride resin modifier used herein are MBS resin for blending (methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene copolymer), ABS resin for blending (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer), chlorinated polyethylene, acrylic acid type resin (e.g., Acryloid K-120 N (Trade Name) manufactured by Rhom & Haas Co.) and graft copolymer of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and vinyl chloride polymer.
• This vinyl chloride resin composition having an excellent cellular film strength can also be used in the above described low foam composition.
• the amount of a foaming agent of organic decomposition type added to the high foam composition is not particularly limited, but is larger than that of a foaming agent of organic decomposition type added to the foregoing low foam composition.
• a foaming agent of organic decomposition type is added in a proportion of 1.0 to 100 parts by weight, preferably 10 to 40 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of vinyl chloride resin.
• Preparation of the uniformly blended mixture comprising a vinyl chloride resin composition, preferably, having a large cellular film strength and a foaming agent is carried out by, for example,
• this high foam composition can further contain a stabilizer, lubricant, coloring agent, foam regulator, foaming agent decomposition temperature regulator, filler, etc.
• the amount of the high foam composition mixed with the low foam composition depends on the amounts of foaming agents contained therein and expansion ratio desired and is not particularly limited. However, the high foam composition is generally added in a proportion of 1.0 to 30 parts by weight, preferably 3 to 10 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the low foam composition. Where the low foam composition contains no foaming agent, the high foam composition is preferably added thereto in the range of 1 to 10% by weight based on the weight of vinyl chloride resin.
• the vinyl chloride resin used in this specification means not only vinyl chloride resin (homopolymer) but also copolymer resins of vinyl chloride monomer and other thermoplastic resin monomers, for example, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin, vinyl chloride-ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin, vinyl chloride-ethylene copolymer resin, vinyl chloride-propylene copolymer resin and other copolymers or graft copolymers of vinyl chloride and unsaturated compounds copolymerizable with vinyl chloride.
• foaming agent of organic decomposition type which can be used in the present invention are azo compounds such as azodicarbonamide, azoisobutyronitrile and azobisformamide, nitroso compounds such as N,N-dinitrosopentamethylenetetramine and sulfonyl hydrazide compounds such as p-toluenesulfonyl hydrazide and benzenesulfonyl hydrazide.
• azo compounds such as azodicarbonamide, azoisobutyronitrile and azobisformamide
• nitroso compounds such as N,N-dinitrosopentamethylenetetramine
• sulfonyl hydrazide compounds such as p-toluenesulfonyl hydrazide and benzenesulfonyl hydrazide.
• the above described composition was stirred for 15 minutes by means of a ribbon blender to obtain a low foam composition.
• the above described composition was blended by means of a Henshel Mixer at a temperature of up to 140° C. to obtain a high foam composition.
• Example 1 For comparison, the procedures of Example 1 were repeated except that the amount of the foaming agent was increased in the low foam composition of Example 1 or that only the high foam composition was subjected to the forming test.
• the recipes of these comparative compositions are shown in Table 4 and the properties of the resulting foams are shown in Table 5.
• High foam compositions H of Table 6 were mixed with vinyl chloride resin compositions according to the basic recipe of Table 7, and then subjected to forming according to the extrusion forming conditions of Table 8, thus obtaining hard vinyl chloride resin foams having the properties as shown in Table 10.
• the high foam compositions H, plasticizers, modifiers and foaming agents in Table 7 were changed according to Table 9.

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